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1. A mutual capacitive touch panel, comprising: a plurality of driving lines; a plurality of sensing lines intersecting with the plurality of driving lines; a preamplifier; a signal output unit; and a signal separation unit; wherein the signal output unit is disposed at input ends of the driving lines and is configured to simultaneously output driving signals to all the driving lines, wherein each of driving signals has a different frequency and is output to a different one of the driving lines respectively; wherein the preamplifier is disposed at output ends of the plurality of sensing lines and is configured to capture sensing signals from the plurality of sensing lines, amplify the sensing signals and output the amplified sensing signals to the signal separation unit; wherein the signal separation unit is connected to the preamplifier and is configured to separate the sensing signals with different frequencies and obtain addresses of the plurality of driving lines associated with each of the sensing signals; wherein the signal output unit determines a frequency sequence every a first predetermined time interval based on a hopping rule, and changes a frequency of a driving signal of each of the driving lines based on the determined frequency sequence, wherein the frequency sequence comprises frequencies of the driving signals; wherein the mutual capacitive touch panel further comprises a shift register and selection switches, wherein a number of the selection switches is equal to a number of the plurality of sensing lines; wherein an output end of each of the plurality of sensing lines is connected with one of the selection switches in series, an output signal of the shift register is provided to a control gate of each of the selection switches so that a sensing signal outputted by one sensing line of the plurality of sensing lines is selected by the shift register through controlling turning on and off of the selection switches, the sensing signal outputted from the plurality of sensing lines is inputted to an inverting input terminal of the preamplifier, and wherein a positive phase input terminal of the preamplifier is connected to a bias voltage.
2. The mutual capacitive touch panel of claim 1 , wherein the signal output unit randomly changes the frequency sequence of the driving signals every the first predetermined time interval, and changes the frequency of the driving signal of each of the columns of the driving lines according to the randomly-changed frequency sequence of the driving signals.
3. The mutual capacitive touch panel of claim 1 , wherein the signal output unit changes the frequency sequence by successively exchanging the current frequencies of the driving signals associated with two adjacent driving lines every the first predetermined time interval, and changes the frequency of the driving signal of each of the columns of the driving lines according to the changed frequency sequence of the driving signals.
4. The mutual capacitive touch panel of claim 1 , wherein the signal output unit queries a predetermined address code every the first predetermined time interval, determines the frequency sequence according to the hopping rule in the predetermined address code; and changes the frequency of the driving signal of each of the columns of the driving lines according to the determined frequencies sequence.
5. The mutual capacitive touch panel of claim 4 , wherein the predetermined address code is updatable.
6. The mutual capacitive touch panel of claim 1 , wherein, a positive phase input terminal of the preamplifier is connected to a bias voltage, and an inverting input terminal of the preamplifier is connected to an output end of the associated sensing line of the plurality of sensing lines.
7. The mutual capacitive touch panel of claim 1 , wherein, from an end of each sensing line the sensing signal is outputted, and the end of each sensing line is connected to a first end of the selection switch by a via hole disposed on a thin film transistor substrate or a conductive gold spacer, and second ends of all the selection switches are connected to the inverting input terminal of the preamplifier.
8. The mutual capacitive touch panel of claim 1 , wherein, the signal output unit is single and is configured to output the driving signals with different frequencies to the plurality of driving lines respectively; or a plurality of the signal output units are present and each of the signal output units is configured to output driving signals with different frequencies to each of the associated driving lines.
9. The mutual capacitive touch panel of claim 1 , wherein, the preamplifier further comprises a feedback network containing at least two feedback branches connected in parallel, wherein one of the feedback branches comprises a resistor and the other of the feedback branches comprises a resistor and a switch connected in series, and the resistance of the feedback network is changed by controlling the turning on and off of the switches.
10. The mutual capacitive touch panel of claim 9 , wherein, the preamplifier further comprises a compensation network containing a compensation resistor, and the inverting input terminal of the preamplifier is connected to a compensation signal source through the compensation resistor.
11. The mutual capacitive touch panel of claim 1 , wherein, the signal separation unit comprises a plurality of band-pass filters, and a number of the plurality of band-pass filters connected to the output terminal of the preamplifier is equal to a number of the plurality of driving lines.
12. The mutual capacitive touch panel of claim 1 , wherein, the signal output unit is a signal generator.
13. A mutual capacitive touch panel, comprising: a plurality of driving lines; a plurality of sensing lines intersecting with the plurality of driving lines; at least one preamplifier; a signal output unit; and a signal separation unit; wherein the signal output unit is disposed at input ends of the plurality of driving lines and is configured to simultaneously output driving signals to all the driving lines, wherein each of the driving signals has a different frequency and is output to a different one of the plurality of driving lines respectively; wherein the preamplifier is disposed at output ends of the plurality of sensing lines and is configured to capture sensing signals from the plurality of sensing lines, and amplify the sensing signals and output the amplified sensing signals to the signal separation unit; wherein the signal separation unit is connected to the preamplifier and is configured to separate the sensing signals with different frequencies, and to obtain addresses of the plurality of driving lines associated with each of the sensing signals; wherein the signal output unit determines a frequency sequence every a first predetermined time interval based on a hopping rule, and changes a frequency of a driving signal of each of the plurality of driving lines based on the determined frequency sequence, wherein the frequency sequence comprises frequencies of the driving signals; wherein an output end of each sensing line of the plurality of sensing lines is connected to the at least one preamplifier; wherein the mutual capacitive touch panel further comprises a shift register and selection switches, wherein a number of the selection switches is equal to a number of the plurality of sensing lines; wherein an output terminal of each of the at least one preamplifier is connected to a first end of one of the selection switches, and a second end of each of the selection switches is connected to the signal separation unit; and wherein an output signal of the shift register is provided to a control gate of each of the selection switches.
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May 15, 2018
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